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Religion of a Different Color - Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Hardcover)
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Religion of a Different Color - Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Hardcover)
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The Protestant white majority in the nineteenth century was
convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely
religious-departure from the mainstream and they spent considerable
effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white equalled
access to political, social, and economic power, all aspects of
citizenship in which outsiders sought to limit or prevent Mormon
participation. At least a part of those efforts came through
persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body, ways in which
outsiders suggested that Mormons were physically different,
racially more similar to marginalized groups than they were white.
Medical doctors went so far as to suggest that Mormon polygamy was
spawning a new race. Mormons responded with aspirations toward
whiteness. It was a back and forth struggle between what outsiders
imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged
triumphant, but not unscathed. At least a portion of the cost of
their struggle came at the expense of their own black converts.
Mormon leaders moved away from universalistic ideals toward
segregated priesthood and temples, policies firmly in place by the
early twentieth century. So successful were they at claiming
whiteness for themselves, that by the time Mormon Mitt Romney
sought the White House in 2012, he was labelled "the whitest white
man to run for office in recent memory. " Mormons once again found
themselves on the wrong side of white.
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